Re: [BackupPC-users] How big is your backup?

2009-12-31 Thread mark k
Agreed sas drives are the way to go, just built a backup server with 10 300gb sas running in a raid 50, going to hopefully replace 2 backup servers that were using SATA storage. On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Stephen Vaughan wrote: > Consider looking at SAS drives.. > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 a

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC 3.0.0 -> 3.2.0 - Major increase in backup time consumption.

2009-05-11 Thread mark k
I believe this has to do with incremental levels, usually set to 1, which means it will backup all changed data since the last full. Meaning sometime on 4/15-4/16 that possibly a large amount of data changed. So taking a full should address that issue. If you are going to keep taking incrementals,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pause backup jobs

2008-06-19 Thread mark k
Unfortunately a SIGSTOP and SIGCONT will not work, after a SIGCONT the rsync job just dies. I did however have success with splitting the job up on the large volume into 15 smaller jobs, was able to complete the backup well within the backup window. MSK On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:36 AM, mark k

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up laptop as available

2008-06-18 Thread mark k
You could just setup an aggressive wake up schedule, and adjust the black out schedule for those clients accordingly, of course it would fail every time the wake up schedule tried to backup that client. You can set it to wake up every 15 minutes if you want by doing 13.25, 13.50, 13.75 etc... On W

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pause backup jobs

2008-06-18 Thread mark k
kupPC interface. On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mark k wrote: >> >> Wondering if anyone one has found away to pause or suspend a backup >> job instead of stopping >> >> I am backing up several servers with large

[BackupPC-users] Pause backup jobs

2008-06-18 Thread mark k
Wondering if anyone one has found away to pause or suspend a backup job instead of stopping I am backing up several servers with large luns 750 gb to 2tb in size. With millions of tiny files. So everytime a new rsync job kicks off it has to rebuild the file list and the only time the backup job c

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude list being ignored?

2008-02-19 Thread mark k
Here is how I have mine setup, note the "/' =>" at the top, backing up 30 + systems this way with nor errors. $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '/' => [ '/proc/*', '/sys/*', '/var/run/*', '/dev/*', - This SF

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why my admin page is not like the one on the backuppc page ?

2008-02-08 Thread mark k
looks like a permissions issue, check $Conf{CgiAdminUserGroup} $Conf{CgiAdminUsers} in config.pl On Feb 1, 2008 10:16 AM, Bouchard, Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, your backuppc is really great , but can you tell me why my admin page > is not like yours ? > > > > > I don't see beautifu